Sydney Wrap Up

This mighta been like 3 weeks ago, but it's still fresh in my memory. Me and Mu got up to sydney with The Troublemakers for a show at the Chinese Laundry. It was real rad. Serious, they know how to party up there. Not only was every act amazing, but the crowd fucken got into it. I was walking around the club before my set when The Hump Day Project were playing, and seriously every motherfucker in that place was dancing. There wasn't one chinstroker to be seen!

The troublemakers consist of a big crew of peeps who make music, DJ and put on nights, kinda like we do. In fact, it was rad finding a whole group of dudes who you can really make a music connection like that, especially when it's just one state over. I mean they're into similar stuff as us, they play it nice and hype, they're starting to get into all this new hype minimal shit we're getting into as well. On top of that they're production is sounding on point. We got to listen to Big Trouble by Derty Rich and Steve Lind which was dope. And the Hump Day Remix of Hornbo is so off the fucken hook (expect it out soon). Just seems like they're on a similar tip - so it's great fun doing stuff with them.

If all goes to plan, expect to see more of them down here at our shows, and more of us up there at theirs - we just had the hump day down for the massive Nasa show (pic above) - man they do a rad show.

I felt i' had to do a post, laden with a few bits of dope that kept me dancing long into the night. After the Slap & Dash set Marky Mark & King Lee got up. At dinner earlier they said they were gonna play some dubstep, but then shiiiit they unleashed a bunch of techy stompers. It was one of those moments where you find yourself running up and checking track names like every second song. I found one other guy in the crowd who had hands up, and seemed to know like every bloody song, and then some. Turned out to be Tom Yum (check his Canopy mix tape series). He hit me with some heat quick smart, half of the tracks below came from him ;)

If yer up in sydney, scatterblog highly recommends you check any and all of these guys out...

So tracks, first was one that just really stuck out for me at the laundry for some reason. It's a little bit blokey and wiled out, so not exactly the shaking, bounce feel i been looking for in this kinda music, it's just really hard to pass up. That synth is so quietly relentless, if that makes any sense. Really gets you into a shoulder rhythm... Goes great over stuff too - only thing is the builds are kinda crazy big and long, so i gotta do an edit i think, but you know, cue points bitch! More Alvita tunes here.

Alvita - Freaky Motherfucker (alt link)

Afrojack has really taken me over lately. It took me a while to get into his tunes, purely because i was getting him mixed up with Aeroplane, so didn't give em a proper listen. Then when i found out that generation bass edit was of his remix, i got taken. This is another tune with that signature bass tone/sound of his. At first i was a little what the hell, he keeps using the same preset, how am i meant to play more than one track out. But then heard him talk about the importance of having a distinctive sound; " In my opinion it should have something recognizable, doesn't have to be original percé, but for me the sound has to be either big or very different, but still has to sound good in the clubs." [House Depot interview]. That's fair enuf in my book, and i gotta say i've gotten into each track so much that i don't have any trouble playing a couple of his tunes in the one set. On this remix of Steve Angello & Laidback Luke he really cuts loose - uses elements of the original eloquently, whilst adding his own sound and freak out to perfection.

Steve Angello & Laidback Luke - Show Me Love (Afrojack Short Remix) (alt link)


This Dave Darell remix of Klingenberg gets reaaalll carnival, which i kinda love. There's a really thin line between radness and heavy cheese with these kinda tunes, but this one's totally in the awesome category. The beat is real driving, and makes the drums kinda tech, but the horns and percussion really make it wile out a bit and feel more worldy. Grab more Dave Darell from here.

Klingenberg - T (Dave Darell Remix) (alt link)


I reckon this next track has to be my pic of the bunch. It's so fucken hard and driven, but so damn party and hype. Fitted with phat arse drums, a wicked and twisted synth part and some vocals that say bitch - so yeah i'm all for it. World and hype again. Grab Chuckie's Bass Kick, or more Inphinity here.

Fao vs Chuckie - Bass Kick In Miami (Inphinity's WMC 09 Remix) (alt link)